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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #4562
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Muckit wrote: »
    Try standing with your bare feet in two metal buckets of water and hold it.....:D :D:D

    You first, I'll bring the video camera :D


  • #4563
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    today i was shoving in my silage and trying to pack it and i actually said it could do with a shower of rain:it was just too hayey


  • #4564
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    keep going wrote: »
    today i was shoving in my silage and trying to pack it and i actually said it could do with a shower of rain:it was just too hayey

    Typical. The south stealing the f**kin sun again! :D Stop holding the sun to ransom, give us back our sun!!:p :D

    I was reading an article yesterday in the farming indo I think it was about all this rain we are getting. He was describing it as 'very unseasonal' weather and I was thinking perhaps it's not unseasonal. Maybe this is the way the weather will be for this time of the year anymore. Maybe it's us that need to change our views and farm practices to fit in. We all should have been out with the mower in April :p


  • #4565
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Muckit wrote: »
    Typical. The south stealing the f**kin sun again! :D Stop holding the sun to ransom, give us back our sun!!:p :D

    I was reading an article yesterday in the farming indo I think it was about all this rain we are getting. He was describing it as 'very unseasonal' weather and I was thinking perhaps it's not unseasonal. Maybe this is the way the weather will be for this time of the year anymore. Maybe it's us that need to change our views and farm practices to fit in. We all should have been out with the mower in April :p

    Jesus, we had the rain + floods for long enough :(
    But we're after a 3 or 4 good days now down this direction, so our place anyway has dried up a good bit. Hopefully the silage I have sold will be cut today - it BADLY needs to be...

    I was talking to an old man, who said he believes we always get the same amount of rain every year (as in the average amount measured over the year) - Its just a case of when it falls.
    This year - it was an incredibly dry Spring, so he said we were due a wet summer... But still... His theory would suggest we will have a dry Autumn + Winter... we shall see I guess... :(

    And just as I am about to hit 'Submit' it starts raining... FFS...


  • #4566
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    still havent cut down me silage, depressing stuff


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  • #4567
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    going out to fodder now,terrible thing to be saying in july:(. . . as its a small bit dry today would ye reckon it would be reccommended to spread fert,i want to close more off for silage as i fear i wont have enough now,its suppose to rain tomorrow though,would it be a terrible idea


  • #4568
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    simx wrote: »
    going out to fodder now,terrible thing to be saying in july:(. . . as its a small bit dry today would ye reckon it would be reccommended to spread fert,i want to close more off for silage as i fear i wont have enough now,its suppose to rain tomorrow though,would it be a terrible idea

    get it spread, it will grow f all in the bag


  • #4569
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    its gona bucket down tomorrow:(


  • #4570
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    its gona bucket down tomorrow:(
    whats new it lashes every thursday:cool:


  • #4571
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    its gona bucket down tomorrow:(

    Only in the southern half of the country. This time last year ye boys were complaining that it was too dry. Be careful what you wish for. Thankfully we haven't had anything more than a drizzle since last saturday. Going to mow this evening and tomorrow and hopefully bale it up on saturday and sunday!! ground is only soaking out now. Glad I waited (was forced to wait because a bearing is gone in the mower). Hopefully I'll get a good bit baled up dry.


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  • #4572
    KCTK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭KCTK


    whelan1 wrote: »
    whats new it lashes every thursday:cool:

    What is it with the weekly flood on a Thursday??? (although then again there was one down here last night also)


  • #4573
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    I was up in Dublin with a client this morning and i couldnt believe all the ragworth in full yellow flower along the N4 from Mullingar and all around the N4/M50 Junction . :eek:.


  • #4574
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    bob charles wrote: »
    get it spread, it will grow f all in the bag

    just in from it now,another 8 acres closed off for extra silage,now to pray thw weather will come in august,also some spread on pastures for WHEN the cattle go back out as will be tight enough with more closed off


  • #4575
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    what the hell happened when i was away the whole place is wet :p,,,,,,,:eek:


  • #4576
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Bet you're wishing now that you stayed away another week:D Any news on that BB open day? Thinking of going to solohead tomorrow to see how to cope with wet land:rolleyes:

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #4577
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Bet you're wishing now that you stayed away another week:D Any news on that BB open day? Thinking of going to solohead tomorrow to see how to cope with wet land:rolleyes:
    france was no better had rain every day but with heat, no news on bb open day ,they must have changed their minds,i know there is a bit of messing going on about the ploughing, want a cow and calf, no dont want one.


  • #4578
    Atilathehun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Atilathehun


    leg wax wrote: »
    what the hell happened when i was away the whole place is wet :p,,,,,,,:eek:

    Michael Noonan, introduced a new levy on cattle sales! It applys only to blues, so that's ok!!


  • #4579
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    heard the too atilathehun... something about the better the BB's were, the worse you'd be hit... shocking...


  • #4580
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Atilathehun wrote: »
    leg wax wrote: »
    what the hell happened when i was away the whole place is wet :p,,,,,,,:eek:

    Michael Noonan, introduced a new levy on cattle sales! It applys only to blues, so that's ok!!
    He likes a decent bit of marbling in his steak, time to move back to angus and hereford ;)


  • #4581
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Been lashing rain here since about 04.00 I'd say... The ground was getting nice and dry, after a great day yesterday. But that's all undone now again... sickening... :( :mad:


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  • #4582
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    still dry here and looking like we may escape with a good bit less moisture than was promised :)

    I have a farmer friend near Söråker Sweden, was chatting to him last night on Skype,
    they are having a similar summer, small holding and the silage is stored in tower silos , the grass is too wet and heavy to blow into them. his english isn't the best but it seems they are not allowed pit silage 'cos the farm buildings are actually on the side of the street in the town


    I look on google maps later


  • #4583
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    leg wax wrote: »
    what the hell happened when i was away the whole place is wet :p,,,,,,,:eek:

    not much really ..

    a couple of the lads on here went to a sing song in Michael D's field

    A government minister is listed stubbs gazette, 2 councillars were charged for accepting bribes

    it only rained twice, first for 5 days and then for 7

    nothing out of the usual just the same old ding dong,

    ooopps !! nearly forgot the tribesmen licked the cats


  • #4584
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    snowman707 wrote: »

    it only rained twice, first for 5 days and then for 7

    a brilliant way to put it:D


  • #4585
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I smiled at that one myself. Very witty :p


  • #4586
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    lovely morning here, dont want to jinx myself


  • #4587
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    snowman707 wrote: »

    it only rained twice, first for 5 days and then for 7
    :D:D Good one, and good description! ;)


  • #4588
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Was tipping along home this morning, mondeo ahead of me, pajero ahead of that, lumbering truck holding everything up.

    Coming into some forestry, solid white line, pajero see's a somewhat straight S bend. Cloud of black smoke and he's away. Mondeo follows, I stay behind the truck thinking "Moneky see, monkey do" :rolleyes:

    All of a sudden the pajero pulls in quick and badly, mondeo right behind him, passing by I see one of the boys in blue walking up to the jeep.

    I'd put money on it that lad in the pajero was only going down the road too.


  • #4589
    Butcher Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    lashing down here in west cork.


  • #4590
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    grrrrrrrr

    Contractor too busy with grass for the last few days to spread fertiliser, finally came and did it last night, and now you're saying it's lashing down this morning.

    god dammit.


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  • #4591
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    JohnBoy wrote: »
    grrrrrrrr

    Contractor too busy with grass for the last few days to spread fertiliser, finally came and did it last night, and now you're saying it's lashing down this morning.

    god dammit.

    Sorry to say John twas not a good night here - the rain is after softening now, but there was hard enough rain hoping off the windows around 5 or 6 this morning :(


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